I consider myself to be a diehard microchip fan but I must confess that I didn’t know about the existence of this analyzer. I saw this analyzer when visiting uk.farnell's webpage.. Immediately I got interested and decided to try it. When the package arrived I got another surprise.

In the package was also a demo board which I never thought it was included for the price it costs.

In my opinion, the price is very good considering that the package has a lot of stuff.

The demo board also comes equipped with 4 LEDs. These LEDs will flash a sequence when the board is powered up and are used to monitor the analog device that will be simulated under Usart communication.

The software to install in the PC is provided in a CD disk. The installation is quick and simple. They work in both XP and windows 7 Operating systems. When running the software and connecting the analyzer we can immediately see in the transactions windows the status of the tool. We can also see the analyzer’s firmware, driver version and software version.

Here is the menu were the type of communication to be tested can be selected. The communication types are: I2C MASTER, I2C SLAVE, SPI MASTER, USART ASSYNCRONOUS, USART SYNCRONOUS, LIN and MICROWIRE MASTER.

After having some fun with the demo board and learning how the software works, I decided to test with a read device. The device I used was a magnetic dual axis sensor. The type of communication was I2C.

Pressing the scrip’s button will run our script as many times we need.

In the transactions window we can see the data sent by the software and the data received by the sensor. Notice that the values received are different because for each packet I rotated the sensor some degrees.